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DAB Stereo Security.

Over Christmas I purchase a DAB Stereo and fitting for my Renault Clio car. It works great.

The fitter mentioned the detachable cover which can be removed to prevent theft. But the only security I have is the cars central locking. The glove box can't be locked and there's not a lot can be done if the car is broken into.

What's to be done? Remove it every time I leave the car when I go out? Just leave it and hope nothing happens?

Long time since this applied, but I used to keep a detachable stereo front in my glove box.
And I was too lazy to lock it

My logic was that if someone is going to go to the trouble of breaking in, just on the off chance that the panel is in the glove box, well they've already wrecked my car in one way or another to find out and the loss of the stereo just becomes collateral damage.

Yes, it's meant to be a more portable alternative to ye olde method of lugging the whole stereo out of the car.

But as queried above, I don't know whether nicking in-car audio fixtures is even a thing any more? I suspect your average junkie would prefer to go looking for phones or other items.

I guess I'm just feeling a bit more protective as it's an expensive thing for me to get although something I really wanted and I'm very happy with. I've got nothing to carry it with me safely if I do take it off.

Having a nice Kenwood DAB stereo has probably cost me quite a bit more than even the stereo cost because of this dilemma, I don't fancy leaving the car just anywhere when visiting a city like Manchester or Liverpool so I have to put it in a multi-storey, it's got the detachable fascia but it's something that could get lost then you've lost the whole stereo that way, so it's not an ideal solution, probably OK for taking in a restaurant or a friend's house or something in your bag, but not when going out for a day in a city and having to lug it around. If you lost the front, could you get another one, it's practically the whole stereo in those electronics! It would be great if Kenwood, Sony etc sold a backup of this.

I'm a radio fanatic though and a DAB stereo for the car is a must, to try out reception of muxes and it's great for sensitive FM reception too.

I had a cheaper Autosounds one before it which had DAB so that could be considered if needed to park the car in a dodgy area a lot.

The dashcam is another one you now have to lug around, I never leave that in the car usually, last one the Micro USB port got worn out and broke because of unclipping it all the time, so I got a Micro USB extension lead.

If you have a dashcam, a good tip is, if you have one of those portable powerbanks, you can use that to power it outside the car, I've had some interesting footage from that, such as walking through a shopping mall where filming is forbidden, they didn't notice the tiny dashcam collecting 1080 footage!

Do people still steal car stereos? I though it was sat-navs, mobile phones, expensive sunglasses, car mats.... er... air fresheners....loose change..... that half eaten packet of polos that was rolling round on the floor for a week....... actually pretty-much anything but car stereos

Do people still steal car stereos? I though it was sat-navs, mobile phones, expensive sunglasses, car mats.... er... air fresheners....loose change..... that half eaten packet of polos that was rolling round on the floor for a week....... actually pretty-much anything but car stereos

My previous car had the Radio and CD built into the dashboard but it only had a CD player and FM Radio. IT was only a 2002 model though.

Not everyone can afford the latest greatest cars

<just realised I was answering a different question >

You can never be too careful, especially when you get new and expensive gear. Some people just steal for the fun of it